Dance Diplomacy: Stories from the Trenches – Journeys from a Dance Studio in New York to the Congo and Beyond

• Performing Arts

What can a dance performance do that official diplomacy or other cultural exchanges can’t? Hollander (who invented the term “dance diplomacy”) and his Battery Dance Company have danced across a carpet of insects in Burma, stayed in a police academy in Germany and taught Palestinian and Israeli students to partner each other. Hear Hollander, the company’s deputy 
director, Emad Salem and dancer Carmen Nicole offer their perspectives on the special connections dance can create across countries and cultures.